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Authors: Les Standiford
rail system, chaotic
Ramrod Key
Raney, George P.
reinforced concrete, use of
“Remember the Maine”
Rockefeller, John D.
Roman aqueducts
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Root, Elihu
Royal Palm Hotel, Miami
Russell, Bernard
Russell, John Henry
Saddlebunch Keys
Saffir-Simpson Scale
sailfish, angling for
St. Augustine, Florida:
development of
Flagler family in
Flagler’s funeral in
Memorial Presbyterian Church in
Ponce de Leon Hotel in
St. Johns River
Sanders, William H.
Sand Key
Satan’s Toe, Mamaroneck
scuba diving
self-determinism
Senator
(freighter)
Seven Mile Bridge
construction of
and hurricanes
Knight’s Key Trestle of
Moser Channel Bridge of
multistaged design of
Pacet Channel Viaduct of
Pigeon Key Trestle of
traffic opened to
traveling time across
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelton, George
Simmons, Charles
slavery law (1866)
Sleicher, John
Sloane, Henry
Smith, Russell
Snake Creek
Southern whitetail deer
Spain, laborers from
spandrel arch bridge design
Spanish-American War
Spanish Harbor Key
Spofford, F. S.
Standard Oil Company
antitrust investigations of
Flagler and
IPO of
ownership of
sub-rosa agreements in
transportation system of
worth of
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Standard Oil Trust
steamship service
Stewart, Alexander T.
Stock Island
Straits of Florida
Suez Canal
Sugarloaf Key
Summerland Key
Supreme Court, U.S.
surveillance blimp
Sybill
(tugboat)
Taft, William Howard
Tampa, Florida:
cigar business in
port facilities in
railroad in
Tampa Bay Hotel
Tavernier, Florida
Tavernier Creek bridge
Theater of the Sea
tidal waves
Tifft, Susan
tornadoes, force of
Torricelli, Evangelista
tourists, on US
Truman, Harry S
Trumbo, Howard
Trumbo Island
Tuttle, Julia
Twain, Mark
Umbrella Keys
Union Pacific Railroad
Upper Keys
Upper Matecumbe Key
US Highway
accidents on
built on railroad span
driving along
as escape route
MMs (mile markers) along
over open water
in Uniform System,
n
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt family
Van Horne, Sir William
Van Vechten, Charles
Venable, William Mayo
Veterans’ Work Program
Vines, Rev. Benito
Volstead Act (1920)
Walker, Will
Ward, George M.
water, fresh
Weather Bureau, U.S.
Weather Channel
West Palm Beach, Florida
Wilkinson, Jerry
Williams, Joy
Windley Key
Windward Islands
Wood, Franklin
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
wreckers
yellow fever
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
About the Author
Les Standiford is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels as well as several works of nonfiction. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. He is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he has lived since 1981 with his wife and three children. You can visit his website and e-mail him at
www.les-standiford.com
.
Also by Les Standiford
Fiction
Bone Key
Deal with the Dead
Black Mountain
Presidential Deal
Deal on Ice
Deal to Die For
Raw Deal
Done Deal
Spill
Opening Day: Or, the Return of Satchel Paige
Nonfiction
Coral Gables: The City Beautiful Story
Miami: City of Dreams
Contributor to the Following Collaborations
The Putt at the End of the World
Naked Came the Manatee
Surrounded on Three Sides
(editor)
Copyright © 2002 by Les Standiford
Map copyright © 2002 by David Cain
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published by Three Rivers Press, New York, New York.Member of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2002.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Standiford, Les.Last train to Paradise : Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean / Les Standiford.Includes bibliographical references.1. Railroads—Florida—History. 2. Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830–1913. 3. Florida East Coast Railway—History. I. Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830–1913. II. Title.
TF24.F6 S73 2002385'.09759'41—dc212001047565
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